The Runaways Thread

[ShaZam612]

Anyone read the new What If? It's the beginning of the What If The Runaways became the Young Avengers.

I haven't been able to find it, but I can't wait to read it and see their costumes!

 

[The Cajun]

Anyone read the new What If? It's the beginning of the What If The Runaways became the Young Avengers.

I haven't been able to find it, but I can't wait to read it and see their costumes!

I'd never even heard of that - when's it out?

Also, how many of you have read Moore's run or did you give up middway/after Whedon?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I passed more because of Ramos than Moore, but I passed nonetheless.

 

[The Cajun]

Moore's writing isn't bad (give him two or three arcs) and Ramos art is toned down and dare I say, maybe an okay fit for Runaways.

At least download.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Meh. Even though I stuck with them through Whedon's run, my love of the Runaways has quietly slipped away.

 

[Sawyer]

Well the thing about the issues after BKV and Adrian Alphona left is, at least in my opinion, is that both writers have the voices of the characters down pat, but the story arcs they are coming up with arent quite up to snuff. I hope that Moore can improve that over time. I hope that they can undo Clara Plast, as I feel that she was an unneccesary addition to the team.

Also, neither of the artists lived up to Alphona (especially Ramos )

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, I really hate Whedon's need to throw shocking junk at the reader. He set it up throughout the whole arc that the dancing redhead would be the Runaways' new addition and then pulled the bait-and-switch at the end with Clara, who is totally useless and stupid. Sometimes doing the obvious thing can simply be the better choice, Joss.

 

[ShaZam612]

 

[Specter313]

Oh wow, who's doing the art on that? It's like the perfect mix of Alphona and Cheung. Get whoever that is on the regular Runaways title ASAP.

 

[Manic]

I hate it when you see these amazing artists only doing stuff like miniseries and one-shots, while men like Humberto Ramos (the considerably more cartoony types) are given everything from X-Men to Runaways.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

What.

 

[Specter313]

It's from the "What if the Runaways had become the Young Avengers" back up that's in the What if's that are coming out this month.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Oh. I didn't know the first one had come out. Damn it, I gotta go back to the shop.

 

[GNR]

I've pondered picking up the HCs of Runaways.Not too sure though.

Someone sell me on it.

 

[fifthfiend]

Yeah, I really hate Whedon's need to throw shocking junk at the reader. He set it up throughout the whole arc that the dancing redhead would be the Runaways' new addition and then pulled the bait-and-switch at the end with Clara, who is totally useless and stupid. Sometimes doing the obvious thing can simply be the better choice, Joss.

The problem is that then you have to come up with some totally other reason for them to be back in the past in the first place cause you've got no more embittered old crone to send 'em back.

...Or I mean I guess you could have it be a story where the heroes actually do successfully change the ******ass we-****ed-up past and the angry old lady gets to fade happily out of existence. I mean granted the act of writing a non-downer ending would probably cause Whedon to spontaneously combust but it might have been worth trying, all the same.

 

[steelio2006]

what r ur guys favorite quotes from the series? (Vol. 1 and Vol. 2)

 

[Blader5489]

I've pondered picking up the HCs of Runaways.Not too sure though.

Someone sell me on it.

Buy them.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Correction: Buy them if the names "Vaughan" and "Alphona" are on the covers.

 

[fifthfiend]

Eh, the Whedon thing's probably decent enough in hardcover. Standard-issue Jossiness aside the biggest problem was the stupidassed non-schedule killing any kind of momentum from reading the book; in collected format it's probably entirely possible to derive some level of enjoyment from the thing.

 

[Dread]

Joss' run had too many characters and Klara the 19th century Plant girl has one schtick, and it gets old fast. He shifted Chase from "mourning over Gert making him dark" into "goofy jock from Volume One only with Dead Girlfriend" with nothing between. He write it like a fanboy, not a writer. It was overglorified fiction right down to the Mary Sue's. But, it isn't Ramos.

 

[fifthfiend]

Dread, you just a hater.

 

[Manic]

As someone who trade-waited every previous run of Runaways, I can tell you that Whedon's run reads pretty darn well as a hardcover. Of course, the fact that it's a hardcover has ruined my collection of Runaways digests...

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I'm loving Super Saiyan 3 Karolina up there

 

[AndThePickles]

As someone who trade-waited every previous run of Runaways, I can tell you that Whedon's run reads pretty darn well as a hardcover. Of course, the fact that it's a hardcover has ruined my collection of Runaways digests...

I hate the actual cover of that hardcover...if I recall, Joss Whedon's name is even larger than the actual title of the series. I despised his run

 

[Manic]

I hate it when the author's name is larger than the title, be it a comic or a best selling novel.